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How to use the word flash in a Sentence?

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This will lead to the chances for scattered flash floods, particularly over parts of central/eastern Oklahoma and northwestern Arkansas on Tuesday night.

Climate Prediction Center

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Gov. Evers isn’t flashy, and he knows what people want isn’t ultimately flash. They want their highways repaired and their schools to teach their kids and their phones not to vibrate at 5 in the morning with something that’s going to stop them from going back to sleep, president Biden has the same thing going for him: decency and a sense of steady leadership rather than chaos and any kind of ideology that might be proceeded by the word ‘ultra.’.

Ben Wikler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Then the water has frozen up the backsides of the houses, so from the tops of the houses all the way down, so, you can just imagine the sheer volume and strength of water coming up over the wall to hit it and then freeze – flash freeze – immediately. It’s absolutely incredible.

Derek Tupling

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you come here on any given day, you might see a flash mob doing a dance routine, you'll see a ballet class, you'll see people playing a random pick-up game of basketball right in the middle of the atrium.

Ralph Zucker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's never a good thing to get too much rain all at once, a trait all too common among slow-moving tropical storms, thus, the flash flood potential is summarily also rapidly increasing.

The WPC

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Pakistan is living through one of the most serious climate catastrophes of the world, we are at this point ground zero of the front line of extreme weather events, which we have seen from early this year from an unrelenting cascade of heat waves, forest fires, flash floods, multiple glacier lake outburst events and now the monster monsoon of the decade.

Sherry Rehman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We know the dissolved oxygen in the river plummeted two nights in a row as these pulses of mud hit the main stem of the river, so it is very clear to us that we had a high intensity fire and then we had a flash flooding event kind of come behind the fire and it just rushed ash and debris and mud into the river, virtually everything in the river died.

Craig Tucker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's something investors have known about for a while as a potential flash point, it's been very hard to trade it. United States don't know if it will be a flash point tomorrow or in five years' time.

Manik Narain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As you can imagine,( the) same with any mammals, juveniles aren't as experienced. They don't have as much pattern recognition skills as adults, we suspect strongly that it's the juveniles and their judgment and discernment between what is somebody's foot and what's a flash of a bony fish's scales.

Gavin Naylor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Continued high temperature has accelerated glacial melting in mountainous areas, and caused natural disasters such as flash floods, mudslides, and landslides in many places.

Chen Chunyan

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

The Scenic Drive, Grand Wash, [and] Capitol Gorge all experienced flash floods yesterday, these roads remain closed. Search [and] Rescue teams were able to rescue all visitors from these areas by 10 p.m. last night.

Capitol Reef National Park

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Investors got fooled again with yesterday's flash rise in stock market as they could not sell their shares and today is further lowest price. Share market started felling from Oct 2021 so it is likely to fall till 2022.

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheispatel
1 year ago

We are continuing to run social media and helpful things for our social media like how to act when your house is getting bombed or in case of a chemical attack. We also try to do lighter things. We did a flash mob of people sharing their pets and little videos of support.

Katerina Manoff

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Some thunderstorms may also contain excessive rainfall rates, prompting the issuance of a marginal risk( level 1 of 4) for flash flooding in Alabama and western Georgia.

Storm Prediction Center

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If it were observable -- which, sadly, it won't be -- you would see a big flash, and dust and disintegrated rocket bits and pebbles and boulders thrown out, some of it for hundreds of kilometers.

Bill Gray

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s been a big week for me, ten days ago, I was dropping off my kids at practice and I was on the ice with bantam players. Flash forward to now and I’m four games in as a coach getting my first win.

Martin St. Louis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A Slight Risk( Level 2 of 4) of excessive rainfall is in effect from southern Illinois to western New York, as well as over parts of the Southern Appalachians on Southeast Thursday . ''. These areas are expected to have the greatest chances for scattered instances of flash flooding.

The WPC

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These are extraordinary records from single lighting flash events.

Randall Cerveny

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Commercial burglaries will be subjected to a lax standard of prosecution, which hopefully will not encourage criminals to descend upon Manhattan to engage in the flash mob burglaries that have all but destroyed business in San Francisco.

Mark Bederow

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I noticed the seat that I had been sitting in and just for a flash of a moment I remember being there on January 6, when we were locked in before we were evacuated.

Grace Segers

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The flash freeze is what separates snow squalls from a run-of-the-mill snow shower, which happens all the time.

John Banghoff

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They had crew literally around the deck to look all the way around the ship to be able to see if somebody was out in the water. They had lights out in the water trying to flash out there, but again it’s pretty dark.

Daniel Miranda

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He turns and is on me, he's on me in a flash. He grabs the shotgun, what were you thinking?

Travis McMichael

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

For example, take the United States and the region in Central America, the Dry Corridor, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua -- just down in that area alone, we're feeding a lot of people down there and the climate is just changing with hurricanes and flash flooding ; it's just devastating.

David Beasley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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